Trinity Network

This is my diagram of the trinity LAN.  I tried to show the relationships between the different buildings, what the network contains, and how it functions.  I don't live on campus, so I don't have a dorm to take pictures of, but I did my best to describe the layout for someone who'll be living in a dorm.  After making the diagram all the technical jargon makes a lot more sense.

Mystery Spot

I chose this spot because this is a building where I spend most of my time, and if you've taken any English classes you've probably been here.  I altered it by changing it to black and white, messing with the contrast and sharpness, adding a generic guy sitting by a clock and two other generic people (I could only find bathroom insignia in black and white, so sorry for any unintended negative connotations-- the building and faculty in fact are very nice and clean), and a no smoking sign.  It has sort of an Art Deco design, so I thought the generic minimalistic effects were appropriate (and there really is a no smoking sign off-frame). 

Best Tech Tip

The best tip for me was to hear about Onyx for Macs.  I knew about repairing disk permissions and verifying the disk, but didn't know there was a program equivalent for CCleaner on the Mac platform that will perform similar tasks.  With everything being done online now, and being a student who relies heavily on my computer, anything to make it secure seems a good investment.  I'll definitely be checking it out in the near future.

Network Server Diagram

This system works well because it balances a level of stability and security with public access. This allows feedback on and grading of submitted files by having a group folder, while at the same time allowing files to be kept stable and safe in either the student's Y drive or the instructor's Network drive.

Introduction

My name is Zach Sharp and I'm from San Antonio, Texas, where I've lived my whole life.

I transferred to Trinity from San Antonio College during the Fall 2010 semester.  I'm majoring in English and thinking about minoring in Philosophy.  Academically, I'm interested in literary theory and criticism, and hope to go to graduate school and eventually teach and do research in something along those lines.  Other than that, I'm interested in music (I play bass and guitar, and played the cello for a long time before becoming bored with it), collecting old vinyl, documentaries, reading and writing.  I'm a big fan of Krautrock (German rock from the 70's), among other things.  I guess that I'm moderately adequate with computers.  I haven't used Excel in years, but I can navigate Word and PowerPoint (at least in the past).  I'm more familiar with the Mac program equivalents Pages and Keynote, so it might be a bit of an adjustment to using the others regularly.  I have never used HTML, so that would probably be the most difficult thing for me to learn about.  If you go into academia you have to be tech savvy, so I look forward to learning more about the stuff I need to know.

zsharp@trinity.edu